horse-head

Questions about horse-head

What does horse-head mean?

horse-head means "any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies".

How many syllables are in horse-head?

horse-head has 4 syllables and divides as hor-se--he-ad under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for horse-head?

Close synonyms include moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, dollarfish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is horse-head a common word?

horse-head is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.